{"id":7642,"date":"2011-06-24T06:55:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2011-08-02T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T00:00:00","slug":"leg-1-medford-to-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/leg-1-medford-to-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Leg 1 (Medford to Portland)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4118trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4118trim-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"upper table rock medford air pictures\" title=\"table rock medford oregon aerial photos from the air\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4118trim-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4118trim-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4118trim.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first flight (of 3) to get to Copenhagen was from Medford to Portland. Most flights out of Medford afford a nice view of Table Rock, a formation created from some ancient lava flows 7 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4143trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4143trim-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"aerial portland oregon photo\" title=\"portland oregon aerial view from the air\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4143trim-800x470.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4143trim-250x146.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4143trim.jpg 1837w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is downtown <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/portland\/>Portland<\/a>, along the waterfront, as my plane was landing in Portland.<\/p>\n<p>From Portland (one of my favorite airports) I got on a flight to Amsterdam (one of my least favorite airports). If you ever take a flight from Portland to Amsterdam (or London or someplace else in the vicinity), be sure to get a window seat on the left side of the plane. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4172trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4172trim-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"mt. hood aerial photo from the air\" title=\"mt. hood oregon\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4172trim-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4172trim-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_4172trim.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soon after takeoff we had this great view of Mt. Hood. Tomorrow, I\u2019ll show you another reason (in summer at least) why a window view on this side of the plane is a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first flight (of 3) to get to Copenhagen was from Medford to Portland. Most flights out of Medford afford a nice view of Table Rock, a formation created from some ancient lava flows 7 million years ago. Here is downtown Portland, along the waterfront, as my plane was landing in Portland. From Portland (one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[244,349,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7977,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions\/7977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}